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### Viewing cable 05TELAVIV45, C) PM'S ADVISOR ON RENEWED REPARATIONS CLAIMS

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05TELAVIV45 | 2005-01-04 14:02 | 2011-01-22 21:09 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Tel Aviv
Appears in these articles: www.spiegel.de

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    This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 TEL AVIV 000045

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/04/2014
    TAGS: ECON PREL MASS PL IS GOI EXTERNAL
    SUBJECT: (C) PM'S ADVISOR ON RENEWED REPARATIONS CLAIMS
    AGAINST GERMANY, RESTITUTION CLAIMS AGAINST POLAND

    Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Gene A. Cretz for reasons 1.4 (b
    ) and (d).

    OutGoing Cable Acknowledgement

    ¶1. (C) Summary: A GOI working group charged with developing a
    five-year plan on Holocaust-era reparations, pensions and
    restitution is considering a recommendation that the GOI ask
    Germany for about $500 million -- possibly in the form of new
    German-made submarines -- in compensation for what the GOI
    says is that portion of the 1953 German-Israeli reparations
    agreement that had been attributed to East Germany, but never
    paid. xxxxxxxxxxxx (strictly protect), contended that such a GOI claim would not violate any "closure" agreements about Holocaust-era
    claims because it would be based on the unfulfilled portion
    of a preexisting agreement. The working group also expects
    to call for renewed GOI efforts to resolve Holocaust-era
    pension issues within five years and to settle all unresolved
    property and asset issues. End summary.

    ¶2. (C) xxxxxxxxxxxx
    informally previewed elements of the GOI,s not-yet-adopted
    &five-year action plan8 on Holocaust-era reparations,
    pensions and restitution, in a December 8 meeting with
    emboff. (Strictly protect xxxxxxxxxxxx.) He
    emphasized that the action plan, which includes renewed
    claims against Germany and Poland, is still in draft, and is
    being vetted with major Holocaust survivor organizations. It
    has not yet, therefore, gone forward to the GOI,s newly
    created Ministerial Commission on Restitution for Jewish
    Rights and Property, nor to the full GOI, for review and
    adoption as official policy.

    ¶3. (U) The text of the GOI Cabinet decision that
    established the Commission is at:
    http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/government/communiq ues/2003
    /cabinet communique - 28-dec-2003.htm

    ------------------------------
    Draft GOI Approach/Action Plan
    ------------------------------

    ¶4. (C) xxxxxxxxxxxx said that xxxxxxxxxxxx and
    Nimrod Barkan, head of the MFA's World Jewish Affairs Bureau,
    was tasked in late 2003 with drafting and submitting to the
    Ministerial Commission a &five-year plan of action8 on
    Holocaust restitution and related issues. The draft, which
    is nearing completion, could be put forward to the
    Ministerial Commission as early as January/February 2005, xxxxxxxxxxxx
    said. The report is likely to recommend that the GOI:

    -- Work to close all outstanding Holocaust-era reparations
    issues within the next five years, including, in particular,
    what xxxxxxxxxxxx said is a still-unpaid sum from the 1953 West
    Germany)Israel agreement.

    -- Work to complete all issues related to Holocaust-era
    pensions within the next five years, while survivors are
    still living.

    -- Continue the strongest possible diplomatic action on all
    fronts to secure full restitution of property and assets,
    including heirless property and assets. xxxxxxxxxxxx said that no
    time limit would apply to this effort, and that the GOI would
    continue work on the issue until it accounts for every asset.
    (Note: In previous discussions and e-mails, xxxxxxxxxxxx indicated to
    Emboff and EUR/OHI that his draft paper would also include a
    recommendation for the GOI to press for restitution for
    Jewish property and assets in Arab lands from which Jews
    fled.)

    -------------------------------------------
    Likely Israel Bilateral Approach to Germany
    -------------------------------------------

    ¶5. (C) Regarding Germany, xxxxxxxxxxxx noted that, according to the
    working group,s research, Israel is still due money from its
    1953 Holocaust reparations agreement with West Germany. He
    said that the amount is one-third of the $845 million agreed
    to in the deal, and represents an amount that West Germany
    reportedly said East Germany would be responsible for paying,
    but that East Germany never paid. Most of the amount paid to
    Israel under the 1953 agreement was in the form of goods
    transferred from West Germany to Israel. In this case,
    Israel is considering a request for military goods, probably
    two submarines, worth about $500 million, he said. (Note:
    xxxxxxxxxxxx was undoubtedly referring to Dolphin-class submarines,
    three of which the GOI received in the early 1990s from
    Germany. The model now sought by the Israeli Navy costs
    about $350-500 million per submarine.)

    ¶6. (C) &This does not constitute a new claim,xxxxxxxxxxxx took
    pains to point out. Rather, he argued, it stems from
    incomplete implementation of an existing agreement, and, as
    such, should not come under the terms of any agreement with
    the United States not to raise new reparations claims against
    Germany. He noted that he reviewed his analysis with Amb.
    Stuart Eizenstat, the former U.S. special envoy for
    Holocaust-era property claims, when Eizenstat visited Israel
    in November. According to xxxxxxxxxxxx Eizenstat concurred that
    nothing in the U.S. closure agreement with Germany in 2000
    would preclude Israel from independently seeking redress of
    an issue stemming from a preexisting agreement. xxxxxxxxxxxx said he
    hoped that the U.S. would not do anything that could be seen
    as opposing or undermining Israel,s bilateral approach to
    Germany. xxxxxxxxxxxx agreed to emboff's request to keep the embassy
    and U.S. Special Envoy O'Donnell apprised of working group
    deliberations and other matters of potential U.S. interest,
    and to brief the Ambassador on the restitution plan as it
    nears completion.
    -----------------------------------
    Future Work: Poland and Arab States
    -----------------------------------

    ¶7. (C) Finally, xxxxxxxxxxxx noted that Poland would likely be the
    next area of focus of the GOI restitution efforts, and that
    the GOI would work in close coordination with the World
    Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) and the other main
    survivor and restitution bodies in Israel and abroad. All of
    the above are in addition to the GOI Ministerial Committee,s
    continuing research into expanding pursuit of restitution
    claims for Jewish property and assets from Arab lands.

    ********************************************* ********************
    Visit Embassy Tel Aviv's Classified Website:
    http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/telaviv

    You can also access this site through the State Department's
    Classified SIPRNET website.
    ********************************************* ********************
    kurtzer

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